When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, "Where's your other album?"

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: "That must be nice."

I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around my house. We weren't idiots, but I didn't have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn't about not wearing makeup. It isn't about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.